Mitigating the Millennium

Introduction 1
Section 1 Case Study Presentations: Community Participation 2
in Practice
1 The Key to Sustainable Disaster Mitigation 4
Rajendra Desai and Rupal Desai, Ahmedabad Study Action Group
2 The Listening Legacy: Challenges for Participatory Approaches 28
John Mitchell, British Red Cross
3 Incorporating Local Level Mitigation Strategies into National and 35
International Disaster Response
Nick Hall, Intermediate Technology
Section 2 Reports on morning discussion sessions 47
Participants broke into three working groups to discuss:
4 Defining a participative approach to disaster mitigation 48
5 Evaluating and measuring the impact of mitigation projects 49
6 Arguments for prioritising mitigation 50
Section 3 Agency presentations: improving practice: ideas 51
for future action
7 Emergency preparedness in cyclone prone areas in Madagascar 52
Remko Vonk, Director of CARE International Madagascar,
June 1992-July 1996
8 Ways and means of improving practice 60
Andrew Maskrey, General Coordinator of LA RED (Latin America)
9 The challenge of getting donors involved in disaster mitigation 62
Roger Clarke, Overseas Development Administration (ODA)
Section 4 Recommendations from afternoon discussion sessions 63
Participants divided into three working groups to make recommendations on
initiatives which would reduce the risk of hazards through the promotion of
community based disaster mitigation programmes at the:
10 Local level 64
11 National level 65
12 International level 66
Appendices 1 Resource list 68
2 Profiles of speakers and facilitators 69
3 List of participants 72
4 Programme 74